DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, FILM, AND THEATRE STUDIES: INDEPENDENT PROJECT Areas of Expertise

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1 DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, FILM, AND THEATRE STUDIES: INDEPENDENT PROJECT Areas of Expertise Paul Anderson UK politics UK social history Russian and Chinese history George Orwell History of Journalism Professor Sanja Bahun Modernism Comparative arts and literature Psychoanalysis Women s and gender studies The Arts and transitional justice Professor Jonathan Baker Theory, practice and principles of journalism Nic Blower British documentary Contemporary film Dr James Canton Nature writing and the new nature writing movement Creative non-fiction Ecocriticism Psychogeography and the rural derive Travel writing The interface between colonial history and postcolonialism Dr Shohini Chaudhuri World cinema, intercultural and transnational cinema Film and Human Rights Gender and Feminist Theory Film Theory and Affect Matthew de Abaitua Creative Writing for prose fiction Memoir and creative non-fiction The Novel Short story or story cycle Science Fiction Literary Fiction

2 Dr Fatima el-issawi Arab media under transition in the context of the Arab Spring Media revolutions Tim Fenton Theory and practice of contemporary journalism Journalism in the transition to digital technology The reporting of UK politics since World War 2 Parliamentary reporting and political culture The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Writing about the sea Professor Jeffrey Geiger Documentary film and media (theory and/or practice) U.S. cinema Postcolonial / world cinema Interactions between film / media practice and theory LGBT issues in literature and film Gender and/or ethnicity in post-wwii U.S. literature and film Professor John Gillies Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature Dr Patricia Gillies Theoretical approaches to literature and art history Beast literature Medieval romance and epic Gender/genre issues in literature French Modernism Shakespeare Early Modern Literature in English, French and Italian Old and Middle English literature Old Icelandic literature Theory and practice of literary translation Dr John Haynes Interdisciplinary, theoretical and practitioner perspectives on Film and History Cinema and social change; films and social justice activism; films as producers of histories Soviet and Russian Cinema, especially Stalinism and Film Independent cinema in the United States Dr Liam Jarvis Immersive Performance and Participation Devising and Contemporary Performance Making Experimental Neuroscience, Embodiment and Body Transfer Illusions in Performance

3 Immersive Performance and Participation Science-art Interdisciplinarity Intermediality and New Technologies Performance in the Dark Dr Eirini Konstantinidou Science Fiction genre Memory in film Virtual reality in film Fiction filmmaking and directing Improvisation as directing or scriptwriting tool Annecy Lax Applied and Community Theatre Human rights, radical politics and social justice Political theatre and political playwrights Documentary and verbatim theatre Autobiographical performance Performance Art/Live Art Gender, Sexuality and Identity Theatre post-1900 Scriptwriting and dramaturgy Creative producing, cultural entrepreneurship and theatre management Professor Jonathan Lichtenstein Contemporary Theatre Stage writing Professor Karin Littau Literature and film Film adaptation, intermediality, cross-media Comparative literature, rewriting, and translation History of the book, silent cinema, and new media Technology, mediality, materialism Reception studies and the history of reading Physiology of reading, embodied spectator, affect Dr Adrian May Creative Writing Myth Folklore Tradition Songs Performance poetry DH Lawrence

4 Stevie Smith Dr Mary Mazzilli Chinese and East Asian Theatre World and Global Theatres Postdramatic Theatres and Modernism/Postmodernism Post-War Theatres in Europe Contemporary Theatre Practices (directing and producing) Dramaturgy and Playwriting Comparative Drama and Literature Gender Studies Dr Chris McCully English Verse (especially older verse) Poetic form in English and other Germanic languages Nature and environmental writing Feature article writing and creative non-fiction Dr Susan Oliver Romantic period Byron Walter Scott Charles Lamb Scottish literature Ballads and folk literature Late 18th Century British and American literature 19th century British and American literature Charles Brockden Brown Periodicals and magazines Transatlantic studies; 18th and 19th century literature Nature writing and ecocriticism Borders and cultural encounters Dr Jak Peake American literatures, especially Caribbean literature Postcolonialism, colonialism Black British writing Travel writing Ecocriticism Dr Holly Pester Feminist experimental writing (poetry and prose) Archive theory and forms of archive research Innovative methods of practice-based research Writing on and about and with Dreams, hallucinations, daydreaming, voice, non-linguistic sounds, nonsense

5 Body, sexuality, posture, radical politics Dr Owen Robinson Literature and culture of the U.S. South William Faulkner New Orleans Post-war U.S. fiction African-American literature Theory: Bakhtin, reader-response, literary geography Dr Jordan Savage Avant-Garde U.S. poetry Literatures of the American South-West Alternative knowledges Feminist reading and writing practices Environmental criticism Eco-lyric Dr Sean Seeger James Joyce Derek Walcott Caribbean literature Modernism Postcolonialism Literary Theory Dr Deirdre Serjeantson Book history and manuscript studies Early-modern translation Women's writing The sonnet Petrarchism Irish and Scottish writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Historical fiction Dorothy Dunnett Professor Phil Terry (on leave ) Experimental Writing Oulipo Contemporary Poetry Historical Fiction Myth Short Story Bevan Walsh Fiction Filmmaking Screenwriting (feature and short film)

FALL 2018 COURSE DISTRIBUTIONS 2018 English Major Requirements

FALL 2018 COURSE DISTRIBUTIONS 2018 English Major Requirements Element 2: Historical Studies Beginning, Medieval, and Early Modern Periods 201 Inventing Western Literature: Ancient and Medieval Traditions 206 Shakespeare 262 Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament